Seth Godin Quotes
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I'll confess that I don't watch the Olympics, but you'd have to be living under a rock to be unaware of the corruption and the expense. An amorphous organization with no transparency, unclear lines of responsibility, huge amounts of politics and a great deal of unearned power.
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One key to moving forward is knowing what to leave behind.
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A one-hit wonder is a legend who stopped early.
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Courage doesn't always involve physical heroism in the face of death. It doesn't always require giant leaps worthy of celebration. Sometimes, courage is the willingness to speak the truth about what you see and to own what you say.
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Solving problems—actually solving them, not just claiming you do—solving perceived, urgent problems, is a surefire way to get the world to beat a path to your door.
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The challenge of our time is to find a journey worthy of your heart and your soul.
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Just imagine how much you'd get done if you stopped actively sabotaging your own work.
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If you're not proud of where you work, go work somewhere else.
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The art, the new, the ability to connect the dots and to make an impact - sooner or later, that can only come from one who creates, not from a teacher and not from a book.
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Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your passion.
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I do not think you can get rid of the fear... but you can dance with it.
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You cannot buy your way to share of voice today; you cannot buy attention anymore.
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Success comes from doing the hard part. When the hard part is all you've got, you're more likely to do it. And this is precisely why it's difficult to focus. Because focusing means acknowledging that you just signed up for the hard part.
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One way to sell a consumer something in the future is simply to get his or her permission in advance.
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Becoming a superstar takes about 10,000 hours of hard work.
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Where do you go to get permission to make a dent in the Universe ? If you think there's a chance you can make a dent, go !
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If you do a job where someone tells you exactly what to do, they will find someone cheaper than you to do it. And yet our schools are churning out kids who are stuck looking for jobs where the boss tells them exactly what to do.
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Leaders lead when they take positions, when they connect with their tribes, and when they help the tribe connect to itself.
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Conversations among the members of your marketplace happen whether you like it or not. Good marketing encourages the right sort of conversations.
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If you could do tomorrow over again, would you?
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It takes three years to be an overnight success, sometimes more.
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The desire that we have to do something that’s never been done before means that the people who are around you generally will not encourage you to do it…if they were encouraging you to do it, then other people would be doing it already and it wouldn’t be unique.
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Nobody says, 'Yeah, I'd like to set myself up for some serious criticism!' And yet, the only way to be remarkable is to do just that.
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I wonder if real art comes when you build the thing that they don't have a prize for yet.